Today is Monday. The twenty-fifth day of the month of August in the year 2008. That only means that tomorrow, August 26th, 2008, is the first day of the release of the Japanese role-playing game Tales of Vesperia. Developed by Namco Bandai for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, the game reached the top 15 rankings of best-selling products at Amazon in the video game division. If you remember correctly, we reported last week that Xbox 360 hardware was sold out in all of Japan. If one were to investigate the 400 percent increase in sales of the Xbox 360 in the country of Japan, one would find out that the culpirt is the video game Tales of Vesperia. Well the hype not only reached Japan, but it also reached North America with this latest news bit. Now with the game about to release in North America, Microsoft, as well as Namco Bandai, must be happy about the latest statistics.

- Geoff

[Source: PunchJump]

That’s right folks! You heard correctly. According to the Xbox 360 Japanese website, all Xbox 360 hardware has been sold out in ALL of Japan. On the Xbox 360 Japanese website, Microsoft issued an apology (read at your own risk) to all Xbox 360 gamers and stated that they will try to alleviate the problem as soon as possible. But what could cause this whole catastrophe? Well one can blame the new game Japanese role-playing game Tales of Vesperia, which was just recently released by Namco Bandai Games. The game hit the top ten games sold within its first week of sale for the week of August 10. If anything, Namco Bandai Games should probably be the one apologizing for giving Japanese gamers something to rave about. I’m pretty sure Microsoft isn’t complaining though.

- Geoff

[Source: Xbox 360 FanBoy]